Improvement in chopping-axes



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TRUMAN MERRIAM, OF WATERLOO, VISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHOPPlNG-AXES.

To all whom it may concern De it known that I, TRUMAN MERRIAM, of Waterloo, county of Jefferson, State ofWiscon` sin, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement on the Ghopping-AX; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, makin g a part otl this specicaton, in which- The letter B shows the upper part ot' the head or poll next to the handle. Letter D shows the upper corner ofthe ax, which is longer two ways than the common ax, the incorner being set in nearer the hand of the chopper, and the same corner, D, extending farther from the eye of the ax in proportion to common ax, receding obliquely to letter G, making the cut of the ax on a shave or draw form the lower corner. Letter G shows the distance from the eye to be less than common ax. From G to F, lower part of the aX or poll, to be much thicker and heavier than front part of the poll B B. The head or poll P H shows the difference in thickness. The dierence may be more or less, according to the heft of ax. 0 C shows the swell of the ax on a line, L L, from L to G and from L to F, lower part of ax acting as a lever or momentum power to drive or propel inner corner into the timber, the innerer upper corner being roundedV and sharp up to letter D.

What I claim as my invention and improvement on axes, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is substantially as follows:

l. An ax having the lower part thicker and heavier than the upper part, in combination with the upper corner, D, projecting upward and outward, longer in proportion than other axes.

2. The slanting or oblique form of the edge of the aX, as above described. y

TRUMAN MERRIAM.

Witnesses E. B. WINsHrP, J AMEs GUsHINe. 

